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Peter David Lax (1 May 1926 – 16 May 2025) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
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| Peter Lax | Alma mater | New York University (BS, MS, PhD) Texas A&M University University of New Mexico Stanford University | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Alma mater | New York University (BS, MS, PhD) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Alma mater | Texas A&M University | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Alma mater | University of New Mexico | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Alma mater | Stanford University | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Born | Péter Dávid Lax (1926-05-01)1 May 1926 Budapest, Hungary | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Died | 16 May 2025(2025-05-16) (aged 99) New York City, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral advisor | K. O. Friedrichs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Steve Alpern | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Chen Li-an | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Gregory Beylkin | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Alexandre Chorin | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Charles Epstein | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Michael Ghil | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Ami Harten | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | James (Mac) Hyman | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | George Logemann | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Jeffrey Rauch | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Doctoral students | Burton Wendroff | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Fields | Mathematics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Lax equivalence theorem | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Lax pairs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Lax–Milgram theorem | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Lax–Friedrichs method | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Lax–Wendroff method | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Lax–Wendroff theorem | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Beurling–Lax theorem | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | HLLE solver | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Known for | Fourier integral operator | 1.00 | infobox |
| Peter Lax | Thesis | Nonlinear System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables (1949) | 1.00 | infobox |
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